Why is the _RlzdGain in Planning/Budget show the cash amount from a sale instead of the actual gain

Gaboum

Why is the _RlzdGain in Planning/Budget show the cash amount from a sale instead of the actual gain

Bob_L

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Bob_L

This has come up before.  My recollection is that the reason is that budgeting has to do with managing cash, not taxes, profits etc.  The gross sales proceeds provide cash that one could budget to use at a future time, perhaps to make up a known loss of income.

Gaboum

But I thought budgeting is to plan income and expenses... so I think thank investment income like capital gain should be taken into account

Bob_L

See this for some of the history:
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7869750/realized-gain-in-budget

Gaboum

Tanks Bob_L for the info...

Chris_QPW

Gaboum said:

But I thought budgeting is to plan income and expenses... so I think thank investment income like capital gain should be taken into account

"Income" is an ambiguous term.

To the IRS it is "taxable income".  So what I'm going to pay tax on is Profit minus Cost.

To a person that is trying to see if they have enough money to pay for groceries, it is how much money they have in the account after their paycheck shows up.

Budgeting in that later.

Gaboum

I think that if the planning/budget treats the Dividends and interests income correctly, it should do the same for Realized Gain/loss in my humble opinion.

Bob_L

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